Category: Analytics

Commercial insurers participating in accountable care arrangements are less likely than Medicare to use payment models featuring the “upside-only” shared savings preferred by providers, according to an analysis by Premier. …read more Source: Commercial insurers less likely to offer ACOs 'upside-only' shared-savings arrangements, study finds

Two leaders from large healthcare systems agreed yesterday at the Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum in Washington, D.C., that they have the tools in place to harness lots of data. But the challenge, they said, is to better understand it and use what they learn to improve care and outcomes. read more …read more…

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today that its NextGen Electronic Dental Record version 4.3 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as a Complete EHR by the Certification Commission for Health…

New research shows that most physicians are not meeting the federal “meaningful use” criteria for electronic health records. …read more Source: Doctors fall short of meeting standards in gov't push for electronic health records

(HealthTech Wire / Opinion by Charels Morris) – Despite the promise of the electronic health record (EHR) to provide a view of patient health generated from encounters across all healthcare settings, imaging has been a critical missing … …read more Source: Image-enable your EHR with ICIS

As of early 2012, fewer than one in 10 doctors had met meaningful use criteria for electronic health record (EHR) systems, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. As of early 2012, fewer than one in 10 doctors had met meaningful use criteria for electronic health record (EHR) systems, according to…

Mobile computer carts aren’t commodities. Their differences, whether minor or major, affect caregivers’ abilities to care for patients. So, when Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, WA implemented its electronic medical record (EMR) system, it put multiple carts through their paces in everyday use. The EMR system replaced a system in which the physicians’ notes…

At the Omni Shoreham regency ballroom at Health Datapalooza IV, Jonathan Bush, CEO of the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR software company, athenahealth, urged the government to release Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data more freely, to a packed, supportive crowd of approximately 2,000. At the Omni Shoreham regency ballroom at Health Datapalooza IV, Jonathan…

The Heritage Health Prize competition for data analytics has awarded a $500,000 interim prize to an international team of seven developers for work that came closest to meeting the contest’s goal of producing a system that accurately predicts which… …read more Source: Heritage Health competition awards interim prize

Earlier this year, The New England Journal of Medicine published a compelling, research-based commentary in its Perspectives section, entitled “Use of Health IT for Higher-Value Critical Care,” by Lena M. Chen, M.D., and several other colleagues. The implications of Dr. Chen’s team’s research findings are potentially far-reaching for hospitals, and especially for CMIOs and other…